Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear America singing, Bam; roll on with Bam! . . . Aloha, do svidania, au revoir, goodbye, later, man, later...
Many of Duplessis' civil-rights policies would have been incredible anywhere else in North America: the notorious Padlock Law for political groups he deemed "Communist," his harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses, the brutal record of his tough provincial cops in labor disputes. Duplessis was sometimes at odds with high Catholic churchmen, but in rural areas, Le Chef, le pere, and the preservation of the faith were indivisible...
Oceanographers have long considered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge about the most interesting single feature of the ocean bottom. According to the original theory of continental drift, which was presented by German Geologist Alfred Wegener in 1920, the ridge was made of material left behind when North and South America broke away from Europe and Africa, and the chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into...
...nation's leading Conservative Jew, Chancellor Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America-Boys' High School, Brooklyn...
...president of the nation's biggest bank, Bank of America's S. (for Seth) Clark Beise-Windom High School, Windom, Minn...